[rescue] off-topic but advice needed for the involuntary hardware upgrade for Win 11?

[Lionel Peterson]

If you choose to build a system for Win 11, almost anything current should suffice, with a few caveats:

- quad core or better
- 16 Gigs RAM
- SSD for boot device (NVMe for the win, but SATA SSD fine)

I run integrated graphics, either AMD or Intel, I'm not a gamer/CAD user, you're on your own there.

Parallel ports will be rough - PCI card may be needed, but maybe USB to parallel will work:

 https://www.microcenter.com/product/417095/vantec-1-port-parallel-pcie-host-card

 https://www.microcenter.com/product/384854/manhattan-usb-11-(type-a)-male-to-db-25-parallel-female-printer-converter-cable-6-ft-black

I agree with Joshua, a refurb mini/micro form system may present the best value, IF you can get the I/O ports you need.

Good luck.

Ken

> On Dec 18, 2024, at 13:40, john ferguson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> I don't know where to turn but will try here.
> 
> Despite still running my Sparc 10, Sunos 4.1.4 and Linux almost everywhere else, I'm forced by a couple of applications to stay with Windows.  One is Creo - current name for Pro-Engineer, and there are others including some Windows Office apps which I need to use to avoid incompatibility problems which though seldom tend to be vexing when they happen.
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> And then there's MSFS2020 where I can run a Beech 18 on gauges from Champaign to MDW when I can't sleep.
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> I'm presently running Windows 10, Ubuntu 22.04, and Debian on two HP Elite 8300s, with Nvidia GTX 1070s, one at home and one at the shop.  I have synology DS216's in each location eachwith 8TB plus removable USB drives to back them up monthly and store them disconnected.
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> They have been fast enough for what I do and I would not change them unless I'm forced to - ie the end of Windows 10.
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> I should add that we've been running an Asus notebook for years on XP without a problem, but then it doesn't do much.
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> It looks like I'm going to have buy a a new motherboard, and since the HP's are not quite hardware compatible, now boxes, the new type of solid state drives, new RAM, etc.  I'd keep the Nvidias, and a couple of the bigger disks now in the HP's.
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> I haven't shopped this kind of stuff in years, and don't know where to start.  I'd thought of looking at what Microsoft thinks is an adequate system - not the greatest and start there.  I do need parallel ports on the shop machine to run the CNC equipment, but I suppose I can find a board with two ports if I can't get one on the MB.
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> I can't tell if all of this makes any sense. If it doesn't, ask away and I'll try to clarify.
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> regards,
> 
> John Ferguson
> 
> St Petersburg -- the warm one.
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